Psychophysical evaluation of image quality: From judgment to impression

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3299, Issue , 1998, Pages 252-263

  De Ridder, Huib ^a  

^a Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contextual effects; Image quality; Impairment; JPEG; Quality impression; Quality judgment; Sharpness

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL;

CONTEXTUAL EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; IMPAIRMENT; JPEG; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EVALUATION; SHARPNESS; UNBIASED ESTIMATES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 0242667320     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.320115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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